Durazzano Mountains (Cretaceous of Italy)

Where: Campania, Italy (41.1° N, 14.5° E: paleocoordinates 23.6° N, 13.4° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Cenomanian (100.5 - 93.9 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; lithified grainstone and lithified rudstone

• bioclastic grainstones and rudstones, floatstones with rudists

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: G. Carannante, D. Ruberti, L. Simone and M. Vigliotti. 2007. Cenomanian carbonate depositional settings: case histories from the central-southern Apennines (Italy). In R. W. Scott (ed.), Cretaceous rudists and carbonate platforms: environmental feedback, SEPM Special Publication 87:11-25 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 84801: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 12.11.2008

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Foraminifera
  -
 Orbitolinacea - Orbitolinidae
Tubothalamea
 Miliolida - Soritidae
 Miliolida - Meandropsinidae
 Miliolida - Alveolinidae
Foraminifera
  -
Anthozoa
 Hexacorallia -
Scleractinia indet. Bourne 1900 stony coral
Gastropoda
 Trochoidea - Trochidae
 Sorbeoconcha - Tylostomatidae
 Heterostropha - Acteonellidae
 Heterostropha - Nerineidae
 Heterostropha - Nerinellidae
 Heterostrophia -
 Neritoidea - Neritidae
Bivalvia
 Hippuritida - Caprinidae
"Caprina baylei" = Caprina baylei Gemmellaro 1865 rudist
"Caprina carinata" = Caprina baylei Gemmellaro 1865 rudist
 Hippuritida - Ichthyosarcolitidae
"Ichthyosarcolites bicarinatus" = Icthyosarcolites
"Ichthyosarcolites bicarinatus" = Icthyosarcolites rudist
 Hippuritida - Radiolitidae
 Hippuritida - Caprinulidae
Neocaprina gigantea Plenicar 1960 rudist